Emerald Health Impact
Emerald averaged 6.0 ug/m3 PM2.5, equal to 1.2x the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline and about 0.3 cigarettes per day by the simple AQI Now indicator. The page uses OpenAQ-derived daily history for 1 mapped monitoring location in Queensland, Australia.
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Average EPA AQI
32
Rank 14 of 59 cities by average AQI
PM2.5
6.0
ug/m3 annualized city average
Seasonality
September
Cleanest: April
Health indicator
0.3
cigarette-equivalent per day
Yearly EPA AQI trend
Seasonal EPA AQI heatmap
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What this health page measures
Translate PM2.5 exposure into WHO exceedance and a simple cigarette-equivalent indicator.
For Emerald, the current global analytics build covers 347 daily rows from 2023-12-31 to 2024-12-31. The calculations normalize PM2.5 and PM10 observations into US EPA AQI bands so country, city, and tool pages use one consistent method.